Maine has a large tidal difference, so it can effect the amout of shoreline,
Fla. is about 2 ft and really doesn't effect the amount of shoreline..


"bb" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:41:02 GMT, wrote:

Thanks for the info. I thought that Fla. might have even more than that,
but, I think Fla's coastline is relatively straight. I just found out on
the WWW that our neighbor, Maine, has a lot more miles of coastline:

"Maine's coastline is long, craggy and has many inlets. What looks like
228
miles on a map, is 3,478 miles of tidal coastline in reality, including
the
offshore islands."

The difference being Maine's shoreline was measured at low tide
whereas Florida's was measured at high tide.

bb